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Tag: 1980s action movies

Tweet by Peter Nielsen Mark Kaminsky is a former FBI-agent who now works as a sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. He was forced to retire after he got a little rough with a suspect in a kidnapping-case involving an 11-year old girl. In his defense, Mr. Kaminsky says that he did what he did because the perpetrator…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen This week’s movie-choice is based on a very successful series of books, “The Destroyer”-series, written by Warren Murphy and Richard Ben Sapir. There are well over a hundred of them published so far and I actually haven’t read any of them. Bits and pieces from some of them sure, but never one in its entirety. Maybe…

Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’re struggling with a curse. Apparently, Jason turns into poop tossing primate by day and Joel turns into a slightly used douche bag by night. Oh wait… that’s not a curse, that’s how we’ve always been. Nevermind. Because this week we’re talking about that fantasy flick from 1985, Ladyhawke! Directed by:…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen At the start of the movie we see a plane landing! Along with the rest of the passengers, Major Paul Hackett emerges. He’s played by an actor I’ve always liked, namely Michael Ironside from Top Gun and Total Recall for instance. What then follows is an assembly of a highly trained army unit, a “zombie unit”…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen The small desert town, Brooks, in Arizona is being ”terrorized” by Packard Walsh and his gang of misfits. Well, it’s mostly the younger population being bullied, I suppose, since we don’t really see any of the “older” people getting harassed. They’re forced to participate in car-races where the winner gets the loser’s car. So far, Packard’s…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen Firewalker starts with the two adventurers Max and Leo roaring over the desert-dunes in their jeep. They’re chased by, what appears to be drunken local pirates in dune buggies shooting wildly at them. When they also start throwing grenades, things get kind of frantic. Leo keeps telling Max to turn left, and Max in turn states that…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen Vietnam, 1972. Soldiers are running through water-soaked fields desperately trying to escape the enemy-fire ripping them apart. Helicopters swoop in as saving angels, but they too get caught in the crossfire. Those few that make it onboard try in vain to reach their comrades, but as the enemy-fire grows too intense the helicopters have to abort.…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen High Road To China was released in Sweden in the latter part of ’83, so I was 15 years old at the time. I watched it at our local theater, “Folkan”, here in Klippan, which sadly closed down in 1992 and a year later, the building that housed the theater burned down. Most of the theater…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen Let’s go back in time, shall we? (Pun intended!) Let’s go waaayy back in time. I must have been 15-years-old, maybe 16, and my best friend Michael and I had just rented Timerider. I’ve stated this before, but we DID rent a LOT of movies back then and this one would have been right up our…

Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’re dusting off a forgotten “gem” and going to war with Tim Thomerson against alien invaders in Zone Troopers (1985)! Directed by: Danny Bilson Screenplay by: Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo Starring: Tim Thomserson, Timothy Van Patten, and Art LaFleur Synopsis (courtesy of Wikipedia): In Italy during World War II, a…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen Sam Quint is a thief! A professional thief, no less! A thief for hire! The movie opens with him breaking into the Lucky Dollar Corporation. He’s hired by the FBI to steal a data-tape from this company, a tape that contains incriminating evidence, which is needed as proof in an upcoming trial. But things go slightly…

Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, we’ll see if we possess the “power of the glow,” because we’re talking about 1985’s The Last Dragon! Sho’Nuff! Directed by: Lt. Willie L. Franklin Screenplay by: Louis Venosta Starring: Taimak, Julius Carry, and Vanity Synopsis (courtesy of Wikipedia): Set in New York City, the plot follows a teenage martial arts…

Tweet by Joel G. Robertson With the start of a new year, I thought I’d change things up a bit. So, the “Coming Soon” posts are now a weekly update letting you know what movie we’ll discuss in our next recording (so you have a week to watch it and call in!). Also, you’ll get a reminder about the movie…

Tweet by Joel G. Robertson It’s time for your weekly sneak peek at what’s coming up soon on The Forgotten Flix Podcast. Our next movie is: Die Hard (1988)! Synopsis (courtesy of Wikipedia): Die Hard is a 1988 American action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on…

Tweet by Peter Nielsen I’m not sure when I first saw this one, but I think it was in my mid-teens. We rented a lot of movies in those days, my best friend Michael and I, you know, the one who now lives in England. Some of the first ones we rented were actually on the Betamax-format. Remember those? That…

Tweet In this episode of The Forgotten Flix Podcast, it’s time to get down and dirty with Snake Plissken in John Carpenter’s 1981 action/sci-fi classic Escape From New York! Director: John Carpenter Starring: Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasance, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Van Cleef, and Tom Atkins. Synopsis (courtesy of Wikipedia): Escape from New York is a 1981…